Pass The Sushi!

Lets talk about drift­ing dri­vers today. I am a young female dri­ver. My car has ‘go faster stripes’ so I do. How­ever, I don’t chat­ter on the cell phone and only answer texts at long red lights. I don’t weave dan­ger­ously between cars just to get to the next red light faster or throw my foot to the ground as hard as I can off of green (unless some­one eggs me on, then it may bring out my com­pet­i­tive side). I pay atten­tion to who else is on the road, whats going on and the sit­u­a­tions around me. I try to be a cau­tious driver…

Lately though, young (not always) female (not always) dri­ves have been scar­ing the crap out of me and I don’t want to be lumped in with them. I heard the other day on the radio there is now a study that shows women are not as good at dri­ving as men and that 2 out of 3 men are scared to be the pas­sen­ger in the car if their female part­ner is dri­ving (yet, she’s prob­a­bly the one hulling the kids around). Read the rest of this entry »

I’ve been a her­mit lately. Or at least feel­ing like one. There’s a bil­lion things on my plate to get done but I’ll be darned if I actu­ally want to sit down and start one. I just typed a silly list of the annoy­ing day to day things that I need to do, real­ized it would bore you to death and deleted it. Mainly, my lazy ass needs to get up and do more. I’ve been stuck in a rut for a few weeks and that’s just not like me.

Bum­bles bounce and so do I. Its time to pull myself up by my boot­straps and makes some pos­i­tive changes (eas­ier said then done)  but liv­ing with a neg­a­tive atti­tude will only make things worse. Read the rest of this entry »

Is it just me or has the fish at the mar­ket been an epic fail lately? Per­son­ally, I gen­er­ally believe in buy­ing fish from a fish mar­ket and not a big box gro­cery chain, but the clos­est one is a lit­tle out of the way for week­night din­ners at the moment. I’ve been eying up the fish at the local gro­cery stores lately and it all leaves some­thing to be desired. Thin flimsy cuts are scat­tered loosely through the case to fill the space. After a few nights of throw­ing in the towel and  fig­ur­ing some­thing else out for sup­per, I was finally able to set­tle for two small salmon por­tions the other day to get my fish kick. Read the rest of this entry »

Appar­ently sum­mer is half over and that means stores are fill­ing their shelves with Autumn dec­o­ra­tions, school sup­plies and early Christ­mas bar­gains.… Really? Because my cal­en­dar says Sum­mer doesn’t end until late Sep­tem­ber and the heat isn’t going to break until Octo­ber 31st and which point — yes — it will be winter.

I get that the kids go back to school soon and maybe that is the unof­fi­cial end to sum­mer, but Christ­mas deals? WTF? I read a report yes­ter­day that major stores like Tar­get and Best Buy will be adver­tis­ing Christ­mas in July to help “loosen some purse strings.” Sure enough, this morn­ing Ama­zon started their Gold Box deal of the day which is nor­mally reserved for Black Fri­day through the holidays.

Don’t get me wrong, I am fanat­i­cal about Christ­mas, but if its Christ­mas in your face all year long, it wont be as spe­cial when you wake up on that crisp Decem­ber morn­ing. Noth­ing any store can do will take that feel­ing away from me. For now, I’ll put my blind­ers on and get back in the kitchen. Read the rest of this entry »

Fam­ily means no one gets left behind or forgotten.

How to watch your num­bers drop like a lead bal­loon — don’t update in 4 days.

Sorry, I got lost dur­ing an incred­i­ble spelunk­ing trip with my Great Uncle Ernie who is an avid out­doors man. It resulted in a 3 day lack of tech­nol­ogy or indoor plumb­ing and boy, was it hot. Uncle Ernie really still has it in him too — I mean 74 and hop­ping on the back of that griz­zly to take back our one Cole­man burner — amaz­ing. Not sure that the bear could have fig­ured out how to use it any­way.  Where I don’t sug­gest get­ting lost in the wilder­ness for days on end, I do rec­om­mend you to never leave home with out a good old fash­ioned com­pass, a few bot­tles of fresh water and a roll of duct tape. Who knows when you may need it. Read the rest of this entry »